"The bad news: There is no key to the universe. The good news: It was never locked.""
— Swami Beyondananda

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
— Oscar Wilde

"The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself."
— Oscar Wilde

"Some things are too important to be taken seriously."
— Oscar Wilde

"When Oscar Wilde was asked in an interview to list his 100 favorite books he said he could not. When asked why, he replied, 'Because I have only written five.'"
— Oscar Wilde

"Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered."
— Oscar Wilde

"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."
— Oscar Wilde

"To be popular one must be a mediocrity."
— Oscar Wilde

"Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties."
— Oscar Wilde

"When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything equal to it."
— Oscar Wilde

"In these days people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
— Oscar Wilde

"for Harry Potter I have all the time in the world"
— Philippa Gregory